Web Encoding
Explore how web encoding transforms special, accented, and non-Latin characters into safe, transmittable formats over the internet. Understand its significance in web application security and penetration testing, including practical use cases for encoding to detect vulnerabilities. Gain foundational knowledge of encoding processes essential for web and server technology security.
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What is web encoding?
Encoding is the process of converting information from one format into another, mostly for processing needs.
URLs are largely sent over the internet using the ASCII or UTF-8 character sets. Oftentimes, special characters, such as = and #; letters with accents, such as ä; and even non-Latin scripts, such as the Japanese kanji for “character,” 字, have to be used in ...